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Review
. 2020 Apr;32(17):e1907142.
doi: 10.1002/adma.201907142. Epub 2020 Mar 4.

Nanomaterial Patterning in 3D Printing

Brian Elder  1 , Rajan Neupane  1 , Eric Tokita  1   2 , Udayan Ghosh  1 , Samuel Hales  1 , Yong Lin Kong  1
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Review

Nanomaterial Patterning in 3D Printing

Brian Elder et al. Adv Mater. 2020 Apr.

Abstract

The synergistic integration of nanomaterials with 3D printing technologies can enable the creation of architecture and devices with an unprecedented level of functional integration. In particular, a multiscale 3D printing approach can seamlessly interweave nanomaterials with diverse classes of materials to impart, program, or modulate a wide range of functional properties in an otherwise passive 3D printed object. However, achieving such multiscale integration is challenging as it requires the ability to pattern, organize, or assemble nanomaterials in a 3D printing process. This review highlights the latest advances in the integration of nanomaterials with 3D printing, achieved by leveraging mechanical, electrical, magnetic, optical, or thermal phenomena. Ultimately, it is envisioned that such approaches can enable the creation of multifunctional constructs and devices that cannot be fabricated with conventional manufacturing approaches.

Keywords: micrometer-scale patterning and assembly; multiscale 3D printing; nanomaterials.

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